Automatic locking table top for kitchen cabinets or the like



Sept. 23 1924. 1,509,649

J. P. HAMEETMAN AUTOMATIC LOCKING TABLE TOP FOR KITCHEN CABINETS OR THE LIKE Filed July 14, 1922 TI 1 TI 2 IN VEN TOR.

$4608 P HAWEEr/M/Y,

i/MM ATTORNEKS Patented Sept. 23, 1924.

UN 1'! El.) S ES JACOB 1. HAMEETMAN; O15 FRANKFURT, INDIANA.

AUTOMATIC LOCKING TABLE TOP FOR K lTIfiCI-IEN CABINETS OR THE LIKE;

Application filed July 14,

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, Jason P. HAMEETMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Frankfort, county of Clinton, and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Automatic Locking Table Top for Kitchen Cabinets or the like; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals refer to like parts.

This invention relates to an extensible table top and a lock therefor. Heretofore it has been customary in kitchen cabinets and the like to provide a table top which is extensible and which can be locked in either the extreme open or extreme closed position, but in no intermediate position. lVhen the beforementioned table top extended to a position intermediate the extreme positions, accidental pressure applied laterally to the table top caused said table top to be moved into its closed position, with the usual result in a telescoping construction of the discharge from the table top of the vessels and contents supported thereby.

The chief object of the invention, therefore, is to prevent the beforementioned results by providing an extensible table top with a lock construction which will automatically lock the table top in the adjusted position and maintain said table top in locked relation and prevent the aforesaid unauthorized telescoping movement.

The chief feature of the invention consists in the automatic adjustable locking device associated with an extensible table top.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claim.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of a portion of a kitchen cabinet embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a. side elevational view of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view with parts broken away to show other parts in detail. Fig. t is a sectional view taken on the line le-45 of F ig. 3 and in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 5 is a side view of the locking device showing the same.

In the drawings indicates the base portion of a kitchen cabinet and 11 indicates the top cabinet thereof. The base portion 10 is of greater depth than the top portion 11 and a table top 12 covers the base 10. Said table 1922. Seriallio. 574,986.

top is slidably supported in the brackets 13. Likewise the table top 12 carries the top drawer slides 1% having the grooves 15- for slidably supportingthe drawers 16. All of the beforementioned construction is old in the art to which this invention applies. The positioning of the top drawers 16 and supporting the same by the table top is to permit the housewife to have access to the drawers when the table top 12 is extended without the housewife returning the extensible top to its original position to gain access to the drawers.

Herein the support for the extensible table top, see Fig. 3, permits said top tobeinclined outwardly, see the dotted lines and the line X-X, so that any liquids or other material which falls upon the table top 12 will drain outwardly instead of inwardly into the recess which receives the extensible table 'top. The locking device permits unauthorized outward movement of the table top upon the brackets.

It will be noted from Fig. 4 that the drawer supports 14; are in spaced relation with each other and said drawer supports are adapted to form a channel or groove for an actuating rod 17. The actuating rod 17 is connected at one end to a hand lever 18 which is pivotally supported upon a bracket 19 secured to the under face of the table between the drawers 16, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The other end of the rod 17 is connected to a U-shaped portion 20 of a transversely extending rod 21. The side walls of the lower cabinet portion 10 are cut away at 22 to form a groove with a. bearing surface 23. The ends of the transversely extending rod 21 extend angularly thereof, and each terminates in an arcuate portion; and said arcuate portion as shown clearly in Fig. 5 is adapted to engage the surface 23 and lock the table in the adjusted position. The central portion of the rod 21 is pivotally supported by the bracket 25 which terminates in a curved spring member 26, and said spring member is connected by suitable means, such as the tie 27, to the rod 17, and normally maintains the rod 17 in the locked position and also maintains the arcuate looking member 21 or cam in the locked position. Thus, forcible movement of the lever 18 upon the pivot 19 is necessary to tiltthe arcuate member 24 to remove the same from frictional engagement with the ledge 23 to permit the movement of the table top in the de sired position. The handle 18 also is adapted to move the table into the desired position.

lVhile the invention has been described in great detail in the foregoing specifications, the same is to he considered illustrative and not restrictive in character, and that many modifications which will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the artto which this invention applies are all considered to be within the broad purview of this invention, as outlined by the appended claim.

The invention claimed is:

A releasable latching construction for two relatively movable and slidahly supported members, comprising a transversely extending rod carried by one of said members and having its ends bent to form arenate portions adapted to engage the other memher, and a crank portion intermediate said arenate portions and integral with said rod for rocking said areuate portions into operative engagement with the other memher.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto :\i'- fixed my signature.

JACOB P. lflAhIEEThrfAN. 

